The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1922, Page 9

BRGIN HERE TODAY ho had shot and killed the ne'er-do~ TT, within tre minutes wal at The Red’ House, setae of hie RE ABLETT ine oor of the locked ppeared, a } o Tnapester fired, it was tbat Mark, whe Red viewed Be carn from A) ne gentioman a4. of Mark's swente, CAYLEY, Mark's constant com und vaguely suspects Coy- Antony A aon “E|back of the shed, G0 ON WITH THE STORY that’s rather hopeless, tent * Bil theught again. “Well,” he peluctantly. “suppese Mark con murdered his nial Mea. Well then, your m™ ory is this, Mark confesses to ley that he shot Robert on pur- ‘and Cayley decides, even at risk of committing perjury, and fate trouble himaeif, to help to estape, is that right? Butt neddet. “Well then, I want to ask you two Pirst, ts it possible, a» I befere dinner, that any man such an idiotic mur.) t puts the rope so | hia neck? Second | prepared to perjure tas he has to, any- ‘t It be simpler for m “What's the matter?” «ald Bin S Antony looked round at him with eyebrows. /*You've thought of something s ly." said Bil, “What ts itt } the house by which Mics Ant laughed. “My Watson,” he sold, “you a t supposed te be as clever as Well, I was wondering about This ts “But Tt has aay, bag it?” sald Bill, getting "I don't know. We font know has, or what hasn't. But it has hing to do with Miss Nor- . And Miss Norrie" He broke shout her?” Attony knocked out his pipe and (got up slowly. “Well then, let's find the way from Norris “Oh, hurry up, quick!” he cried. “The Fairy Queen needs YOU at once.” At last everybody in Whispering Forest was cured. Aigo the people C014 Orchard, Bright Meadow and Ripple Creek. > Snuffies packed his bag and went back to Fairyland after bidding the Twins good.tye. Mr. Tingaling, the fairy landlord, tacked @ “toilet” ‘sign upon Dr. Snuf house near the blueberry patch, ana and Nick started to go ‘On thetr way they passed their old play ground under the chestnut tree the meadow where they had first found the magic shoes one day @ Jong, long time ago. Were taking them off and ing every which way for their own little brown jeather shoes when wuddenty whe would appear but thelr O14 triend, the Magical Mush- “Ob, hurry up, quick? he eried, “The Fairy Queen needs you at once, en the locked doar | we came.” Bill Jumped up eagerty. De you mean there's «er anyway. 1 love seoret Lord, and thie e wolf just an ordinary merehant! What a Secret passages!” ‘They made they way down into ; the diteh, If an opening was to be |found which led to the house, it | Would probably be on the house side | of the green, and the outside of | | the ditch. The most ebvious place at whieh to begin the search w | the shed where the bowls were kept, There were two boxes of eroquet things, one of them with the tid open. Antony tapped the wall at the | “This ts where the passage ought te begia,” “It needn't begin here « {107 enid Bill, walking | dent head, and tappin: | alle, He was just too tall to stand | upright In the shed. “There's only one reason why it | should, and that fs that it would } eave us the trouble of looking any: where else for it,” Antony began to feel in his pockets fer bis pipe and tobacco, and then OUR BOARDING HOUSE WELL» I DONS WEAR ANY LouD APPLAUSE Rom “H’ GALLERY OVERTH’ SIZE OF THIS BAGS T CAUGHTS WHEN WE PULL IN, ONE OF You GUYS WILL HAVE “Th CRANK UP “TH! CAMERA AN! "TAKER A SNAP OF ME AN’ TH! FISH LOOKING PLEASANT ! OW Ve You'Re A MOpEST LiL GUY AINTCHA? *You'D LIKE TO GNEAK HoME INV FRONT oF A BRASS BAND $0 AS NOT To ATTRACT ANY ATs TION+ WELL, APTWR “TH! News SPREADS ABOLIT YouR CRTCH, “THEN'LL. WANT " FLOAT A CORK | STRTUR OF You AN TH FIGH ON “HIS LAKE! © | euddenty stopped and stiffened to at. . Fer ® moment he stood went down on his ki Then he quickly, walked whispered in his “Footsteps, to play bowls, “Well, why grumbled bili, ed te when I anid 1 don’t want to.” > you want to de?” ton the lawn. Let'y ind bring these things want to play.” Inch by inch his head went rownd the corner. match, he “There'll be nomebody listening to us. You take the Cayley view.” They walked over to the seat and sat down “What a heavenly night!” said An- tony. “Ripping.” wonder where that poor devil Mark ts now.” t's a rum business.” a agree with Cayley—that ft an accident?” Yes. You see, I know Mark.” “H'm.” Antony produced « pencil and 4 plece of paper and began to ae Keep your Greén Shoes on, my} |dears, and wish yourselves to her |Palace at once, I'll go along.” Instantly the three of them were whizzing thru the alr like fast air |planes and in about four shakes of la gulnea-pig’s tail there they were, lright at the foot of the Fairy Queen's throne, “Oh, my dears!’ she.cried joy. fully when she saw tnem. “I need |you so much, Will you do something for me that needs great courage and daring?” “Oh, yes, indeed!” the Twinn es sured her, “We'll go anywhere and do anything you wish.” “Then I'll tell you pened, inawered her royal ness. “Flap Doodie, the Fairy, who files with his ears, hos stolen my wand! Will you go after him to the Tinky Winkle Star, where lhe lives, and get it?" (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Beuttle Star) what's 4 3 us wrote, he taiked. He said that he| round it until the shed came tn sight. | thought Mark had shot his brother In| The footstep: which he had heard a fit of anger, and that Cayley knew. | seemed to be underneath the shod; | or anyhow guessed, this, and had| probably there was a trap-door ot tried to give his cousin @ chance of|some kind in the Goor, Whoever It) getting away. jwas would have heard their volces, | “Mind you, I think he's right. Ijand would probably think It worth} think it’s what any of us would do.| while to listen to what they Ww an't give it away, of course, but | saying. ” ow there are one or two little He walked quickly but things which make me think that/ly along the baif-leng Mark really did shoot his brother—|bowling«wreen to the first corner, | r than accidentally.” | passed cautiously round, and then “Murdered him? went even more carefully along the| “Well, mansiaughtered him, any-| width of it to the second corner. He way. I may be wrong, Anyway, !t’s| could hear 1 hard at ft, and he! not my business.” | smiled appreciatively to himself. Bill} “But why do you think so? Be-| was a great conspirator—worth a/ onune of the keys?” [hundred Watsons. An he approached “Oh, the keys are a wash-out. Still,|the second corner he slowed down. ) it was @ brilliant idea of mine, wasn't | and di the last few yards on hande} is?” land knees. Then, lying at full| He had finished his writing, ond) length, inch by inch his head went now passed the ¢ over to Bill. In| round the corner. the clear moonlight the carefully! The shed was two or three yards | letters could easily be read: |to his left, on the opposite side of 4 on talking as if I were here jthe diteh From where he lay he After a minute or two, turn round| could see almost entirely inside tt as if 1 were sitting on the grass be | Everything seemed to -be as they | hind you, but go on talking.” |left it, ‘The bowls-hox, the lawn: “I know you don't agree with me,"| mower, the roller, the open croquet Antony went on as Bill read, “ you'll see that I'm right.” 3 Bill looked up and nodded engerty. | self, at's neat.” | He had forgotten golf and Betty and| The lid of the other eroquet-box all the other things which had made | wns open, too up his world lately. This was the| Bill was turning round now: his real thing. This was life voice became more difficult to hear. “Well,” he began deliberately, “the | You see what I mean,” he was say- whole point is that I know Mark. | ing. “It Cayley~” Now, Mark" And out of the second eroquet- box | But Antony wan off the seat and|came Cayley’s black head, | letting himaelf gently down Into the (Continued Tomorrow) WHOM SHALL MOLLY MARRY? | co ————- BY LOK BECKLEY —~ 2 NO. 6—THE ELOPEMENT—WITH FIRM RESOLVE AND SHAKING HEART, MOLLY CROSSES HER RUBICON. wept off her feet by romantic love: ploye, but Molly's manner had all | DON MANNING, one of t men who | decision. are in love with ing, lead- ing man in the looal a ompany induces Molly to go with him on the midnight express to Pittebure, When BEN WHEELER, efficient manufactu | ery sflent: | ot the "id Antony to him "I wish you happiness,” said And if you ever need eount on me.” She thanked Bennings and the| talk was impersonal and brief till | they came tnto the square before the | station, From the main entrance | Donald Manning eame hurrying as he caught sight of Molly. With nervous “Thank you and—good.bye.”" Moliy left Bennings and joined Don. ‘They moved off instinctively into the shadow “Oh, Molly, dearest, you've comet’ Don whispered eagerly ‘With her mind and will set on her he anything, her third lover, BILLY BARTON, # you tries to prevent Moll tion by wrecking hi Molly proceeds in employer, Mr. Bennings. Banker Bennings glanced uneasily at the secretary he had thought "as sure as an adding machine.” Not that he disapproved marriage tn gen. eral, even for his own valued om- THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN AW, “THATS ONLY A MiNNow, BUG! = “TH! WAY "To CATCH A BIG ONE 16% HANG TH’ BAIT IN "TH! MIDDLE OF A HORSE COLLAR, So THEY'LL out STUCK “TRYING “To GO “THROUGH IT! = LAUGH "THAT OUT, BUT “MaAT's How BIG “THEY COME! © a’ FISHES FoR OMPLIMENT ~ses=--¢ * rage CHIEF BIC “rhe frightened family was @umb with terror," Daddy went} on with Mr, Bell's story, “ for) tho they had Known Chief Big Star for a long time, #o they re-| membered Dr, Whitman had known his Indian friends for al long time and no man now could) trust an Indian, for something had gone wrong and the Indian was on the war path with only hate tn his savage heart. “But the volce of Big-Star/ broke the torror-filled stiliness as he said, "My children, you are tn trouble because of the thing which my brothers haye done, 1| grieve that you are in trouble. | My people love you; and my peo plo will take care of you, But you must make quickly for your lodge strong shutters of wood, to cover the opening of your doors and windows lest some enemy slip into this, our country, and an arrow should fly into this, your lodge, and take the life of| your good Woman or your little| ones.’ “There was much more of his speech, all strong and kind; and| eee tt ttt Ht en answer, & proud, wholehearted “Yes,” Molly was frightened to find she could not frame the word with her Ups, or nod, or even show it in Something, she didn’t know what, was keeping her from surrender, even after her conscious self had willed it. Don Manning knew the cause and the cure for it, The May madness that still held him in thrall was lift ed from Molly, freeing her mind and her senses, If he didn't prevent it, her brain would clear, his power and plans be at an end, hands, gently, tenderly. | prac | stage love scenes he tilted her face |to bis, held her eyes with his own |burning glance till } Pr hers and whispered ever so faintly word in life to me—say you love me say It.” the word Molly wanted there u MARSHAL DOG FIGHT AND A RUNAWAY TODAY HE HAD NO“TIME TO WORK ON HE PosT OFFICE ROBBERY MYSTERY— “TOM, DID You "TURN THE GAS OUT IN THE KITCHEN STOVE AS 1 TOLD You ‘To P 760 -STAR the big chief kept his word, “after the massacre, you re member, the white people who were not killed were held captive by the Indians and suffered ter- ribly. “Christmas came and went and the two little families so far away from the soldiers and forts and any other protection were guard- ed safely by Big-Star’s people, un- til the weather permitted them to go to Fort Colville “Then, when the snow melted end it began to look like spring and stil no harm had come to any of them, Mr. Eells sald to Elkanah Walker, his neighbor, ‘It is time that our spring crops were started, If you are not afraid to try it, let us go back to our farms, break the ground and start the spring planting,’ And Mr. Walker wasn’t afraid either, so they went back. “Mr. Walker took @ half-breed Indian boy with him, but Mr. Eells took only Edwin, “Now Edwin was only 7 years ol4, mind you, 7 years old, but his father chose him to go as his only companion on what might prove @ very, very dangerous journey, for who could tell what @readful thing the Indians might do next?" (To Be Continued) THE AGoVE the tempest. “Yes,” she breathed, 1" He took her face between his With the ticed technique of a hundred he saw them|Manning’s name cried aloud often and dream, bent his lips to hind them. It was @ woman's ery, “Oh, my dearest, say the sweetest surance. “Donny! eame the voles. “Donny, where are you?” Manning, of the matinee presence, seemed suddenly stricken with realis- tic fear, Two figures sped toward Against whatever had held back to utter, surged a mad something hru her blood at Don's touch and Again the words froze upon her|Woman older than Molly, lips, but this time at the sound of|¢ally gay in theatrical garb, but on from |her face the signal of a {somewhere on the dim station be- Prnumag a fear. rom a woman in panic, calling for reas-| Sight of them, With a child's abans don of panic, the newcomer flung herself at Manning's breast. PAGE 9 BY STANLEY NoTe:— THe CasT PorR- TION OF THE SENTENCE IN NLOON] MAY BE THAT «8 ) ‘kiss, a something as Irresistible as {them as they stood at the far dark edge “Oh, Don, | crossed a shaft of light, Molly saw one was Ben Wheeler, the other & of the platform. As they pathetly woman's Molly sprang away Don as the woman caught “Oh, Don, darling,” she pani “If you desert me, I—I shall die!” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Staxy 1